The Oxford handbook of Charles Dickens / edited by Robert L. Patten, John O. Jordan, and Catherine Waters.

Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/​Created
  • Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.
  • ©2018
Description
xxxiii, 819 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

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Subject(s)
Editor
Series
Oxford handbooks [More in this series]
Summary note
This Handbook is a comprehensive and up-to-date collection on Dickens's life and works. It includes original chapters on all of Dickens's writing and new considerations of his contexts, from the social, political, and economic to the scientific, commercial, and religious. The contributions speak in new ways about his depictions of families, environmental degradation, and improvements of the industrial age, as well as the law, charity, and communications. His treatment of gender, his mastery of prose in all its varieties and genres, and his range of affects and dramatization all come under stimulating reconsideration. His understanding of British history, of empire and colonization, of his own nation and foreign ones, and of selfhood and otherness, like all the other topics, is explained in terms easy to comprehend and profoundly relevant to global modernity.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other title(s)
Handbook of Charles Dickens
ISBN
  • 0198743416 (hardback)
  • 9780198743415 (hardback)
LCCN
2018939911
OCLC
1019619357
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